I Want To Make My Own Shisha... A Few Questions

[dizzbizz]

I decided I want to try this too. I'm going to make a Google doc with my trials and findings. If anyone wants to be shared with it I can send you the link. I'll post my progress as soon as I can.

[ilikemyusername]

Rani - I probably could cook the "goop down a bit, I'll experiment before I get started. Honey can cook down a little bit as can molasses but something tells me glycerine won't cook down so easily. I see a massive smoke cloud in the kitchen in the near future.

Also, the flavorings I want to use are lorann candy oils. They shouldn't break down and taste funky when they get hot, they go into candy and molten sugar is pretty warm

[Rani]

Rani - I probably could cook the "goop down a bit, I'll experiment before I get started. Honey can cook down a little bit as can molasses but something tells me glycerine won't cook down so easily. I see a massive smoke cloud in the kitchen in the near future.

Also, the flavorings I want to use are lorann candy oils. They shouldn't break down and taste funky when they get hot, they go into candy and molten sugar is pretty warm

 

Candy flavorings have to stand up to the hard ball stage which is 250 to 265 degrees.  Anything made for hard candy should work just fine.  As far as when you add the glycerin, when I'm talking about a reduction, I'm talking about a slow simmer, not a boil.  For that it shouldn't break down the glycerin.  There are lots of foods we buy everyday that have glycerin in them.  Just remember glycerin is a humectant, and it absorbs about 20% of it's weight in moisture.  So it could well be you add it at the very last minute right after you remove the rest of the mixture off the heat, causing it to thicken even further.  But soft candies cook it in through the whole process so perhaps it works both ways.  I personally would probably try adding it as part of the original ingredients so that it doesn't pull extra moisture from the environment after I've gotten the goop just right.  That's why glycerin and rosewater hand cream went out of fashion.  It is so moisture crazy that it was pulling moisture right out of the same hands it was put on to moisturize!  

 

'Rani

[Grim_Puffer]

Ok my friend hasn't emailed me back and I've been out of town but I would think google could help with this.

I know you can by plain cured tobacco easily just depends on amount